SOURCE: “Men from Boys: Cibber, Pope, and the Schoolboy,” in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol. 32, No. 3, Autumn 1991, pp. 219-39.
In this essay, Straub examines the eighteenth-century practice of gendering literary authority as masculine and in that context focuses on Cibber's unusual use of the sexually ambiguous figure of the schoolboy to construct an alternative model of authority.
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